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“I don't think you can have a better secretary of the Treasury than Hank Paulson.”

“I don't think you can have an authentic connection when one person is diagnosing the other.”

Thinking Persons Communication Connections Nonviolent Communication

“I don't think you can have an imagination without having fantasy, and you can't have that rich a life without an imagination.”

Thinking Imagination Fantasy Rich

Author:Jane Alison

“I don't think you can have pain and soul-searching doing the right thing for your child.”

Thinking Children Soul Pain Your Children Right Thing Soul Searching Doing The Right Thing

Author:Diane Abbott

“I don't think you can having an opportunity to ride either on the front or the back or in the middle of someone else's bus doesn't dignify you.”

Thinking Opportunity Middle Fronts Bus

Author:Malcolm X

“I don't think you can help but personalize a role. You almost play to none of the preconceived notions of it. It's more or less a personal experience and journey.”

Thinking Play Helping Roles Journey Notion Personal Experiences Preconceived Notions

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“I don't think you can hold someone accountable for trampling someone else, because that person was probably pushed from behind. But if someone picks your pocket in a crowd, it's no different from any other act of that kind, in another situation.”

Ifs Thinking Kind Persons Different Behinds Situation Picks Crowds Pockets

Author:John Seabrook

“I don't think you can in any way export culture with guns or tanks.”

Thinking Way Culture Gun Tanks

Author:Bernardo Bertolucci

“I don't think you can know God unless you're passionate about him so you're either screaming at him, enraptured with the idea of being around him or feeling him in your life.”

Thinking Knows Ideas Feelings Passionate Knowing God

Author:Jim Carrey

“I don't think you can learn to be a complete musician. That has to come from within, and it entails a lot of sacrifice.”

Thinking Sacrifice Musician

Author:Yngwie Malmsteen

“I don't think you can live without stress; I think the human life is stressful, and it probably always has been, although the forms of stress may change from culture to culture, and from time to time.”

Thinking Humans May Has Beens Form Life Is Culture Stress Human Life Stressful

Author:Andrew Weil

“I don't think you can love Jesus without loving His wife.”

Thinking Jesus Wife Jesus Love

Author:Ed Stetzer

“I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer.”

Thinking Honest Conscience Lawyer Legislature Law Students Funny Lawyer

Author:Will Rogers

Source: Will Rogers' Daily Telegrams

“I don't think you can name a good picture where the production or the possible promotion isn't "cast-contingent." That means the film needs not just star power but star box office power.”

Thinking Needs Mean Film Names Stars Office Casts Productions Boxes Promotion Box Office

Author:Larry Gelbart

“I don't think you can prevent an artist from being and I don't think you can cause one to be. No one knows what makes an artist.”

Thinking Knows Artist Causes Destiny

Author:Robert Engman

“I don't think you can pump carbon dioxide into the atmosphere indefinitely and not have a reaction. But there are great scientists such as Freeman Dyson, one of the greatest physicists of the last hundred years, who has studied the question, who believes quite the opposite. The reason transnational action is so difficult is because the major problem with climate change is, A, that there is no consensus, and, B, that the economic cost is simply staggering. Reversing it completely might mean undoing the modern industrial economy.”

“I don't think you can question your instinct; you should always trust it.”

Thinking Should Instinct

Author:Andrea Arnold

“I don't think you can read poetry while you're watching television very well.”

Thinking Wells Television Watching Television

Author:Edward Hirsch

“I don't think you can really be proud of being gay because it isn't something you've done. You can only be proud of not being ashamed.”

Thinking Done Proud Gay Ashamed Be Proud Being Gay

Author:Quentin Crisp

“I don't think you can really expect to win a hockey game giving up three power-play goals. In reality, you cant give up those and that's the difference in the hockey game.”

Thinking Giving Play Reality Three Games Winning Goal Differences Giving Up Hockey Cant Power Play

Author:Randy Carlyle

“I don't think you can really make television based on what you think audiences want. You can only make stories that you like, because you have to watch it so many times.”

Thinking Want Stories Watches Audience Television

Author:Dick Wolf

“I don't think you can really trust a man who likes to dance.”

Thinking Men Likes

Author:Brian Billick

“I don't think you can really, truly be the partner you want to be until you know on an absolute level that you are a complete person on your own.”

Thinking Knows Want Persons Levels Absolutes Partners

Author:Sophia Bush

“I don't think you can recreate anything from the past. You can not do it. If you're going to go out and imitate a Motown sound, you can't do it, it's impossible because of the studios and players involved and the atmosphere.”

Ifs Thinking Past Sound Player Impossible Involved Studios Atmosphere Can Not Motown

Author:Elton John

“I don't think you can rely on Iran. I don't think you can rely on other radicals like the Taliban. They dispatched Al Qaida to bomb New York and Washington. What were they thinking? Were they that stupid? They weren't stupid. There is an irrationality there, and there is madness in this method.”

Thinking Stupid New York Madness Method Radical Rely Bombs Iran Als Taliban Irrationality

Author:Benjamin Netanyahu

“I don't think you can revive traditions on purpose.”

Thinking Purpose Tradition Revive

Author:James Hillman

“I don't think you can run around and crash and bang quite the way that I might have done in the past.”

Thinking Way Done Might Running Past Crash Bangs

Author:Eric Lindros

“I don't think you can run for president or be president unless you're a busy person.”

Thinking Persons Running President Busy Busy Person

Author:George W. Bush

“I don't think you can say that feminism has made women critical of marriage because women have been critical of marriage for centuries.”

Thinking Has Beens Made Feminism Century Critical

Author:Elizabeth Gilbert

“I don't think you can separate a person's "style" and his persona. If you're writing or improvising honestly, you will inevitably reflect who you are.”

Thinking Writing Style Who You Are Honestly Persona

Author:Dave Brubeck

“I don't think you can separate a place from its history. I think a place is much more than the bricks and mortar that go into its construction. I think it's more than the accidental topography of the ground it stands on.”

Thinking Construction Bricks Mortar Topography Bricks And Mortar

Author:Alan Moore

“I don't think you can shock an audience anymore. Me cutting my head off is a great illusion, but when you turn on CNN and there's a guy really getting his head cut off, it does dilute what I did.”

Thinking Doe Guy Turns Audience Cutting Illusion Shock Turn-on Cnn

Author:Alice Cooper

“I don't think you can sing about certain things when you're a teen-ager or in your early 20s, because you haven't lived long enough. So I think living gives you character and that comes out in your voice.”

Thinking Giving Long Enough Character Certain Voice Havens Early 20s

Author:Tom Jones

“I don't think you can solve what's going on in Iraq unless you can deal effectively with the region and you can't deal effectively with the region if you start with the premise that you can't talk to people who disagree with you.”

People Ifs Thinking Deals Iraq Solve Regions Disagree Premises

Author:Wesley Clark

“I don't think you can spend too much time as an artist believing what other people think.”

People Thinking Believe Artist Too Much

Author:Liz Phair

“I don't think you can spend yourself rich.”

Thinking Rich Economics

Author:George M. Humphrey

“I don't think you can strategize to be poetic and neither can you strategize to be funny. It is not a tool, it is itself - it comes from the moment, from the character, from the background, from the streets.”

Thinking Moments Character Streets Tools Backgrounds Poetic

Author:Elia Suleiman

“I don't think you can take a whole genre of very popular books and say, "This is all trash!" When we read a memoir that isn't by a celebrity, we feel like we're about to go on a journey and we don't know where the journey will lead. But when we read a memoir by a celebrity we feel like we already know the journey and we just want to travel it.”

Thinking Knows Want Feels Book Whole Journey Goes On Memoir Genre Trash Very Popular Want To Travel Popular Book

Author:Hilary Liftin

“I don't think you can talk about progress in art - movement, but not progress. You can speak of a point on a line for the purpose of locating things, but it's a horizontal line, not a vertical one.”

Thinking Art Purpose Speak Lines Progress Movement Vertical Horizontal Horizontal Lines

Author:Donald Barthelme

“I don't think you can teach someone how to come up with good characters or a story.”

Thinking Character Stories Teach Come Up Good Character

Author:Thomas Lennon

“I don't think you can tell somebody how they should collect. I think it's just about being turned on by art.At the end of the day, some people just kind of get it. They don't all get it in the same way or get the same artists, but it's a journey that excites them.”

People Thinking Way Should Kind Art Ends Artist Journey The End Of The Day

Author:Larry Gagosian

“I don't think you can tell the objective truth about a person. That's why people write novels.”

People Thinking Writing Persons Novel Objectives Objective Truth

Author:A. N. Wilson

“I don't think you can work on feelings in politics, apart from anything else, political change can come very unexpectedly, sometimes overnight when you least expect it.”

Thinking Sometimes Feelings Political Political Change

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“I don't think you can write - at least not well - if you don't love stories, love the written word.”

Ifs Thinking Writing Wells Stories Literature Written Love Story Written Word

Author:Nora Roberts

“I don't think you can write according to a set of rules and laws; every writer is so different.”

Thinking Writing Different Law

Author:Kiran Desai

“I don't think you can write an experience as you're having it without being an idiot.”

Thinking Writing Idiot

Author:Jessa Crispin

“I don't think you can write novels on the road. You need a certain stability.”

Thinking Needs Writing Certain Novel Stability

Author:Leonard Cohen

“I don't think you choose whether or not you're gay.”

Thinking Gay You Choose

Author:Rosie O'Donnell

“I don't think you could find any person in political life today who has been subjected to more attacks and had more money spent against her by special interests, among whom you have named a few, than I.”

Thinking Persons Has Beens Today Political Interest Special More Money Special Interests Political Life

Author:Hillary Clinton

“I don't think you could function on set if you think like that. I think once you start to think of the impact, then you're not really coming from a truthful place. I think the best thing to do for me is what's worked in the past.”

Ifs Thinking Past Function Impact Best Things Things To Do Truthful

Author:David Duchovny

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